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Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye

From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye
Date 2016-09-05 21:31 +0000
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 09:02:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 9/5/2016 2:12 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:37:07 -0400, Eric Sosman
>> <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/24/
oracle_reveals_java_applet_api_deprecation_plan/
>>
>> I feel betrayed. I have written all kinds of Applets. Now they no
>> longer work.  Java has been so relentless about the prinicple: Works
>> once, works forever. Now that have flagrantly violated it.
>>
>> I can see they don't like having to keep running to stand still with
>> browser interfaces.  They then should create something browser
>> independent that might work like PDF independent of the browser to act
>> as the womb.
> 
> Oracle does not have much choice.
> 
> The makers of browsers are dropping applet support.
>
Not only that, but they are steadily dropping support for ANYTHING they 
didn't write, e.g xpdf, even though their internal PDF readers don't work 
as well as the long-standing external equivalents.
  
> Why maintain something that cannot be used by anyone.
>
Because their internal 'solutions' are crap?
  

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Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-24 08:37 -0400
  How about 2K and 4K Displays? (Was: Kiss your Applet good-bye) j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-24 16:38 +0200
    Re: How about 2K and 4K Displays? (Was: Kiss your Applet good-bye) j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-24 16:44 +0200
    Re: How about 2K and 4K Displays? (Was: Kiss your Applet good-bye) Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-14 15:08 -0700
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-08-24 16:57 +0000
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 10:08 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-24 20:10 -0400
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-24 20:06 -0400
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 04:42 -0700
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-04 23:12 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-05 09:02 -0400
      Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-09-05 21:31 +0000
        Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-09-05 18:18 -0400
          Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-06 12:08 -0700
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-06 13:17 -0700
              Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-06 19:27 -0400
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-06 19:24 -0400
          Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-09-06 19:58 +0000
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-06 13:08 -0700
            Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-06 13:55 -0700
              Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-09-06 22:28 +0000
  Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 12:44 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-10-14 15:52 -0400
      Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 13:07 -0700
    Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Tim Slattery <tim@risingdove.com> - 2016-10-15 15:08 -0400
      Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-03 13:54 -0700
        Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-10-04 07:25 +0800
          Re: Kiss your Applet good-bye Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-10-04 08:09 +0000

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